CHAPTEE IX 



.1892 



The re^^val of part of tlie former controversy which 

 he had had with Mr. Gladstone upon the story of 

 creation, made a warlike beginning of an otherwise 

 very peaceful year. Since the middle of December a 

 great correspondence had been going on in the Times, 

 consequent upon the famous manifesto of the thirty- 

 eight Anglican clergy touching the question of in- 

 spiration and the infallibility of the Bible. Criticism, 

 whether " higher " or otherwise, defended on the one 

 side, was unsparingly denounced on the other. After 

 about a month of this correspondence, Huxley's 

 name was mentioned as one of these critics ; where- 

 upon he was attacked by one of the disputants for 

 " misleading the public " by his assertion in the 

 original controversy that while reptiles appear in the 

 geological record before birds, Genesis affirms the 

 contrary ; the critic declaring that the word for 

 " creeping things " (rehmes) created on the sixth day, 

 does not refer to reptiles, which are covered by the 

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